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Buraka Som Sistema. Commissioned for Plan B magazine
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Spilled Log
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Guardian G2 Cover
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Back! Back!
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Detail from Turdbrains
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Burst!
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Guitar Crazies
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LogFace
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Turd City
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Mimi Leung
Guest Posting 17 - 21 August 2009
Mimi Leung is an artist and illustrator who graduated from RCA in 2007. Since then she’s been making illustrations for various people and putting on shows of her personal work. She splits her time between Hong Kong and London, but eventually hopes to settle down somewhere nice, possibly California. She just had her first solo show in London and is working towards a new one in Hong Kong for September 2009.
What have you got planned this week?
Leaving UK for Hong Kong, meeting with a shopping mall there to organise my September exhibition. I’m thinking big cut-outs and foam animals…
What do your parents think you do?
Daydream too much and mess things up
Who do you look like?
My Gran
What’s your favourite sense?
Rhythm
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
I was once unconscious for 3 days (or was it 2? I don’t remember)
Did your education count?
Yes, but I should have paid more attention to the rest of the world.
What word can’t you spell?
Rhythm
Tell us a good fact
Mycelium is going to save the world.
What’s Next?
Lots more hard work and self-improving, especially on the ways of being a ‘grown up’.
What’’s your ‘Plan B’?
Try my luck in another country…?
Guest Posts
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Madonna Vs Courtney Love @ 1995 VMAs
- Guest posted by Mimi Leung 17 August 2009
Everything about this is perfect. I’ve always loved the 90s and wished I was old enough to appreciate it more, it was such a totally crazy and awkward time. (stop watching after Madonna leaves though, Courtney Love on her own is just self-indulgent…)
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Guest posted by Mimi Leung 18 August 2009
An English version of the mega-work A Drifting Life by one of my favourite artists, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, was published earlier this year. I’ve only flicked through it a few times in Foyles, though I fully intend to make it mine one day. His other bits of genius include Good – Bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man & Other Stories.
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Serena Huang on TED.com
- Guest posted by Mimi Leung 19 August 2009
Usually I couldn’t care less about Asian child prodigies prancing around with their violins, but this performance by the then 11 year-old Serena Huang is ace – especially the variations on Yankee Doodle’ at the end (18.40). Amazing.
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Ed Suckling
- Guest posted by Mimi Leung 20 August 2009
I may be biased since I went to Central St.Martins and The Royal College with him, but still, Ed’s the best animator I know and it sometimes confuses me how he’s not off around the world winning general acclaim and awards. Not sure he updates it much, but definitely worth taking a peek.
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Rhythm Is A Dancer/Eurodance
- Guest posted by Mimi Leung 21 August 2009
Would loved to have gone raving to this the first time round. I really like the reality tv-ness and the tie-die acid effect on the videos – so tacky, so perfect. A classic of the era – Snap’s Rhythm Is A Dancer. Epic.
